Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permanent secretaries would run things in their absence. Last week the eleven surviving ministers-five others had been fired, one quit in disgust, and another, Amin's brother-in-law, submitted his resignation by letter-filed into the presidential palace in Kampala for a 6 a.m. command breakfast. Those who showed up late, Big Daddy curtly announced, would be court-martialed...
...connected and surpassingly self-confident. He charges with the 21st against the dervishes at Khartoum, makes his way alone through the to the Nile, escapes from a Boer camp into an eight-day chase. Apart from money and fame, his principal aim in these dispatches is to win each breakfast reader of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to his own vision of colonial expansion. This is the age of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The exuberant correspondent foresees a "brave system of state-aided - almost state-compelled - emigration" to "regions of possibil ity" where "the great-grandchildren...
...breakfast in another part of Washington still another former Cabinet officer showed the same doubts. If evidence surfaced linking the President to the bugging or the coverup, he said, he did not want to hear about it or think about...
...play that is ostensibly about science, Galileo takes an irritatingly simplistic view of scientific discovery. After hearing a brief description of a telescope, for example, Galileo immediately constructs his own telescope out of two lenses, two breakfast buns, and an old book. Most of the experiments he conducts are embarrassing in their inanity. Just because he is dealing with the infancy of empirical science is no reason for Brecht to reduce science to an infantile level. The proof that this is unnecessary comes as early as the first scene, when Galileo explains his theories to the young Andrea. Perhaps because...
Never another visit to Tralfamadore? "No!" says Kurt Vonnegut, squinting into the sun. "Never again." Breakfast of Champions is ultra-Vonnegut-marked by melancholy and self-indulgence, most visible in the graffiti-style drawings he has scattered through it. But it is a true creation, and true creations do not die - thus Noah and his Ark, the Adventure of the Norwood Builder and Son of Frankenstein. And soon...